Queues are much faster, as you only need 15 players of any role combination from your faction rather than an evenly role-matched amount of the other faction too.

There is no chance of losing, the question is whether you win in 2 minutes, 5, or 10.

You can pretty easily do something else at the same time, like watching your favorite television show, Twitch stream, YouTube video, or writing a scathing tweet about the state of grinding essences in the game.

However:

It can get very repetitive.

There is no challenge or real PVP to be enjoyed as there is in a regular Battleground.

Let’s talk about a few optimizations you can make to rack up that honor more quickly as you only have until Tuesday (NA) / Wednesday (EU) before Comp Stomp goes away!

To queue up for Comp Stomp, open the PvP UI element (Default: I), then head to Quick Match and click on Brawl: Comp Stomp. Queue up for your role and you're all set!

Optimization 1: Battle-Standards!

You can purchase Estandarte de Batalha da Coordenação from the Guild Vendor in any of your faction’s cities Guild Vendors and drop it to increase your honor gained by 15%! In this mode, you don’t gain honor for kills, only ticking honor based on the points your team is earning and a chunk of honor at the end. This means it’s optimal to drop this before your team starts earning too many points and then stay within range until the end of the BG. If you do this every time, you’ll shave about 15 Brawls off your to-do list!

Depending on how fast you’re winning, you may not have it available to use every time - in this case, other members of your Guild can drop theirs, or you can pick up the lesser versions Estandarte da Unidade and Estandarte da Colaboração to use when the Battle Standard is on cooldown. If you die, your banner goes away as well, so having these on-hand for after you rez is a good idea, although generally you should try to avoid dying after dropping your Battle Standard! Their bonuses don’t stack, so don’t drop all three at once.

Optimization 2: First Win of the Day!

You gain an extra 220 Honor (and 40 Conquest!) for your first win of the day in this game mode, so if you’re going to do multiple characters, you may want to make sure to get one in on each of them rather than focusing solely on one character until it’s done.

Optimization 3: Go for the 5-cap!

At the start of the game, generally your faction will fan out to Lumber Mill, Blacksmith, and Gold Mine, while claiming Farm and leaving Stables to the Alliance. By the time the fights are over at all three of those bases, Stables will be captured, and pushing it will take a few minutes of wiping the bots as they resurrect. You can instead secure an early 5-cap if your character is powerful enough, or if you can bring someone else with you, by rushing Stables and taking the flag before they get access to the graveyard.

Even if you end up losing a fight at one of the other bases, your team should have time to get there and take the flag before it converts into a graveyard, and the enemies should be forced to respawn at Trollbane Hall. You can ensure a quick victory by engaging them as they exit their base - the AI will not try to run from a fight, so as long as you can get in combat with all of them as they spawn, they won’t fan out and hit multiple bases. Just make sure to not do this alone unless you’re confident you can survive or kite them back to your team.

At the start of the game, generally your faction will fan out to Lumber Mill, Blacksmith, and Gold Mine, while claiming Stables and leaving Farm to the Horde. By the time the fights are over at all three of those bases, Farm will be captured, and pushing it will take a few minutes of wiping the bots as they resurrect. You can instead secure an early 5-cap if your character is powerful enough, or if you can bring someone else with you, by rushing Farm and taking the flag before they get access to the graveyard.

Even if you end up losing a fight at one of the other bases, your team should have time to get there and take the flag before it converts into a graveyard, and the enemies should be forced to respawn at Defiler’s Den. You can ensure a quick victory by engaging them as they exit their base - the AI will not try to run from a fight, so as long as you can get in combat with all of them as they spawn, they won’t fan out and hit multiple bases. Just make sure to not do this alone unless you’re confident you can survive or kite them back to your team.

Optimization 4: Queue with Friends!

Executing the above strategy goes from difficult to doable with one friend, and with two or three it becomes easy. For super bonus points, you can even queue with up to the full 15 people required for the game mode, which ensures instant queues and very fast victories. It’s possible to earn around 5,000 Honor per hour in a full 15 person premade, and if you get other members of your Guild involved you can set up a rotation for the above-mentioned Battle Standards to get around their 10 minute cooldown.

When you have Rank 2 or 3 of any Essence, the price for the other roles’ versions of that Essence gets reduced dramatically. For example, Esfera da Fúria Irrestrita costs 25 Marks of Honor, but if you have already used Sangue Agitado dos Dominados, then it only costs 10! This means you should make multiple trips to and from the vendor, buying Rank 2 for one role, applying it to your necklace, then buying Rank 2 for your offspecs, and repeat that process for Rank 3, to save a bunch of Marks of Honor!

Comentários

Comentado por MrXtrm

on 2019-12-06T23:32:30-06:00

I'm wondering if the AI learns at all or there's some randomness in how the AI acts. I chain queued a bunch of brawls and each time I rushed Farm first and there was always only one Horde there and when I started to approach, they would run to the nearby house for the Zerker buff which allowed me to cap the point every round.

Then after a handful of queues, instead of one AI being at Farm, two would be there, there would still be one who goes to get the Zerker buff, but I would never be alone on the flag anymore.

Comentado por Dratnos

on 2019-12-06T23:50:20-06:00

@MrXtrm

- The AI does follow similar rules each time - yeah they prioritize getting those buffs so you can exploit that to cap on them. Sometimes 1 stays at the base, sometimes 2, that just seems to change somewhat randomly.

Comentado por Wasselin

on 2019-12-06T23:55:25-06:00

How long will compstomp be around?

Comentado por Dratnos

on 2019-12-06T23:56:47-06:00

@Wasselin

Until weekly reset!

Comentado por Rectu

on 2019-12-07T00:58:24-06:00

Note that Battlefield Tactician is not account wide progress. So only use alts for the conquest points.

Comentado por Myzou

on 2019-12-07T01:31:38-06:00

Might want to mention it's also amazing for Arathi Basin reputation for those working on 100 Exalted Reputations.

ESPECIALLY since it's the 15th Anniversary since we get 15% Reputation Bonus. (And Darkmoon Faire is still here for another day too)

I'm grinding it since it's the last reputation in the game I can raise to exalted, and grinding it on regular Arathi Basin as Alliance is just plain excruciating and I gave up. At our regular win/loss rate, it was an average of like 540 more games, but it was only like 35 more Comp Stomps.

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That said, this is actually pretty terrible for the 30,000 Honor Essences. I've done ~13 Comp Stomps today and only made like 2600 Progress into the achievement. If I had done Epic BGs in the same time, I'd have made easily quadruple/quintuple that amount. I'd have way less Marks of Honor though.

Comentado por Daillemand

on 2019-12-07T01:42:23-06:00

Got 8 marks per 120 toon. (3 for the win, 5 for the quest)

Comentado por Pangolin

on 2019-12-07T02:01:43-06:00

PvP rewards for doing PvE.

Comentado por MrXtrm

on 2019-12-07T02:38:56-06:00

PvP rewards for doing PvE.

Essences that are good for PvE from doing PvP.

What's your point?

Comentado por ZodiarccWoW

on 2019-12-07T04:08:56-06:00

Might want to mention it's also amazing for Arathi Basin reputation for those working on 100 Exalted Reputations.

ESPECIALLY since it's the 15th Anniversary since we get 15% Reputation Bonus. (And Darkmoon Faire is still here for another day too)

I'm grinding it since it's the last reputation in the game I can raise to exalted, and grinding it on regular Arathi Basin as Alliance is just plain excruciating and I gave up. At our regular win/loss rate, it was an average of like 540 more games, but it was only like 35 more Comp Stomps.

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That said, this is actually pretty terrible for the 30,000 Honor Essences. I've done ~13 Comp Stomps today and only made like 2600 Progress into the achievement. If I had done Epic BGs in the same time, I'd have made easily quadruple/quintuple that amount. I'd have way less Marks of Honor though.

That's impossible. The first win of the day gives you nearly 500 honor, every other one 320. So you can't get only 2600 from 13 times.

Comentado por Lostelf

on 2019-12-07T04:47:00-06:00

Also works well for getting your recruit a friend 2 battlegrounds bonus for 30 marks of honor done. Not sure what level you need to be to unlock the brawl though, my RaF account was 120.

Comentado por Mioko

on 2019-12-07T07:22:08-06:00

This is so great, I'm only missing 2 R3 essences and it's this one and the call to arms one, which I'll get in 3 weeks.Thanks wowhead for this !

Comentado por lllbearlll

on 2019-12-07T07:40:51-06:00

can i complete the 30k honor b4 i finish the 1st step( island bg and epic bg win)? or do i need to do step by step?

Comentado por gamerunknown

on 2019-12-07T07:51:28-06:00

I'm split 4 ways: this for honour gains, Korrak's for levelling, pet fights, or deepwind gorge win farms before it disappears! I suppose quick pet queues and comp stomp are the only ones available this week, so I may as well prioritse those.

Comentado por Gatora

on 2019-12-07T08:12:49-06:00

Wish this article would've appeared sooner, now I only have 3 days to farm this

Comentado por QuartrDollarKing

on 2019-12-07T08:54:25-06:00

Its also a great opportunity to grind the BG's rep. I did it last time the brawl was up but this time is even better considering the permanent 15% boost that persists through death.

Comentado por Mightylorddk

on 2019-12-07T09:49:12-06:00

I'm split 4 ways: this for honour gains, Korrak's for levelling, pet fights, or deepwind gorge win farms before it disappears! I suppose quick pet queues and comp stomp are the only ones available this week, so I may as well prioritse those.

DWG is not going to disappear. It's going to be revamped.

Comentado por Peredhil

on 2019-12-07T10:02:10-06:00

I'm split 4 ways: this for honour gains, Korrak's for levelling, pet fights, or deepwind gorge win farms before it disappears! I suppose quick pet queues and comp stomp are the only ones available this week, so I may as well prioritse those.

DWG is not going to disappear. It's going to be revamped.

But most achievements from it will be turned legacy.

Comentado por CarrionCarcass

on 2019-12-07T10:42:45-06:00

I disagree with it not being fun because they're not real players, The bots actually use tactics I don't see many players use like having the rogue shroud half the team then zerging flags while i'm the only one there for example It also seems like their stealth detection radius is larger since I can barely reach the flag without being attacked, I think the fact that they're bots makes people underestimate them so when they realize that the bots are actually "smart" it's a surprise, In my opinion that makes comp stomp fun, because people expect one thing but get the opposite. It is a nice way to quickly gather honor and marks of honor so when it comes to repetitiveness I don't like that it's just Arathi Basin, It would be nice if for some Brawls we can pick the maps, It would be really nice to do comp stomp in Warsong Gulch, Alterac Valley, or Seething Shore.

Comentado por CarrionCarcass

on 2019-12-07T10:44:16-06:00

How long will compstomp be around?

a week I believe, probably longer since it was supposed to be last week but it was bugged and had to be replaced.